Painter Georgia O’Keeffe, sometimes called the “mother of American modernism,” was known for her large paintings that depicted close-up views of flowers. O’Keeffe studied art from an early age, but began her formal career after moving to New York in 1918.

O’keeffe’s studio looks wonderfully airy in this photo, and the desert landscape visible just outside the curtains seems rather peaceful. This photograph was taken…

This week’s Studio Sunday artist, Thomas Wilfred, is actually better known as a Danish inventor and musician. Wilfred lived in the early 1900s, during which time he created the inventions that would later make him known as the “father of multimedia.”

The son of a photography studio owner, Wilfred was interested in light throughout his life. The artist noted that light was a fundamental aspect of art, and that all artists…

Today’s Studio Sunday artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Born in Nigeria, Crosby now lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where she creates works that explore a created dichotomy between these two homes, referencing art historical movements from Africa as well as America.

Crosby usually creates her works on paper, with a combination of traditional media like painting, printmaking, and collage. Photo transfers are also a…

Patricia Cronin is our Studio Sunday artist this week! Cronin is known for her two and three-dimensional works in a range of media, many of which explore issues of gender and marriage equality.

While Cronin is known for works in sculpture and installation, in the above photo she’s hard at work in another one of her favourite media – paint. It looks as though the artist is working with delicate washes of paint here, building up…

Studio Sunday artist Gene Davis was an American abstract painter associated with the Color Field style, in which artists created abstract canvases that focused on large areas of monochromatic color. Davis himself was known for large, room-spanning paintings incorporating fields of flat color layered under narrow vertical stripes.

Because Davis so frequently worked on such a large scale, many of his works were produced directly on…

This week’s Studio Sunday artist Joan Miro. Miro was a Spanish artist known mainly for painting and sculpture, and as one of the pioneering artists of surrealist abstraction in the early to mid-twentieth century. Born in Barcelona in 1893, Miro spent the majority of his career living and working in Spain and, occasionally, Paris.

The above photo shows Miro reclining in his studio in Mallorca, Spain, in 1977. This studio was…

In this week’s Studio Sunday we’ll look at the studio of Peter Voulkos. Voulkos, born Panagiotis Voulkos to Greek parents in Bozeman, Montana, became a renowned ceramicist during the American Abstract Expressionist period. He was known in particular for large-scale clay sculptures that featured a rough, heavy aesthetic with ample evidence of the artist’s hand.

Studio Sunday artist Jenny Morgan is a painter based in New York. Known for her contemporary-styled female nudes and self-portraits, Morgan produces independent exhibition works as well as commissioned works for various publications.

Working primarily with the human figure means that Morgan frequently utilizes photographic references. I can imagine the artist sitting at the desk space pictured above and adding detail to the…

Oskar Fischinger, our Studio Sunday artist for the week, was an abstract painter and animator who produced much of his work during the heyday of hand-drawn animation. Fischinger was best known for his abstract animations set to music, and his work with Disney and other film productions.

The photograph above shows Fischinger at work in the Walt Disney studio in 1939. It’s unclear exactly what Fischinger is working on, but the…

Our Studio Sunday artist this week is John Currin. Currently based in New York, Currin is known for figurative painting that draws from influences including contemporary fashion and magazines as well as renaissance-era romantic painting styles.

Located in a building in the Flatiron district of Manhattan, Currin’s studio here looks amazingly clean, and has a sort of old-fashioned elegance to it. The dark-colored hardwood floors…

This Sunday we’re taking a look at the studio of Anicka Yi. Yi is originally from South Korea and now lives and works in New York. As a conceptual artist, Yi tends to work with unconventional materials, though she is perhaps best known for her work with fragrances, an exceedingly ethereal, yet pervasive mode of conveying information to the art viewer.

Given Yi’s penchant for unconventional methods and materials, it’s no…

Don Voisine is an American contemporary painter who currently lives and works in Williamsburg, New York. The artist specializes in geometric oil paintings where heavy, monochromatic black polygons are broken up by moments, like pixels and frames, of white or bright colored paint.

This panoramic image of Voisine’s studio is quite interesting – it shows us far more of the studio space than we might normally get to see, really…

Our studio Sunday artist this week is Rene Magritte. Magritte was a Belgian painter who created works of dreamlike surrealism using a detailed, realistic style. From the late 1920’s up until his death in 1967 Magritte created numerous paintings in a smooth, softly blended style that would later come to influence movements like Pop Art and Minimalism.

Magritte’s studio looks almost dainty in its way. Though the studio seen…

Spanish artist Pablo Picasso dabbled in all sorts of media throughout his career, including visual arts, theatre, music, and writing – though he remains best known as the painter who brought cubist abstraction to the forefront of the art world.

Picasso spent most of his adult life living and working in France, out of a home studio like the one pictured above.

British sculptor Phyllidia Barlow has been working as an art teacher since the 1960’s. Only since 2000 has Barlow become publicly recognized for her works on a larger scale. Known for her imposing large-scale sculptures made from scrap materials including cardboard, foam, plastic, and plywood, the artist generally works in an abstract style, creating large, monolithic shapes as well as drawings that reflect a similar aesthetic…